New By Patricbensen

Distributed Caching Using Ehcache on Amazon EC2 This post elaborates the setup of Ehcache to enable distributed caching in JEE applications....

New Install and configure CVS on Solaris 10 By Patricbensen

Download the appropriate binary from http://www.nongnu.org/cvs # create a "cvs" user. This user will be used to impersonate cvs...

New Java - Create Zip file in memory By Patricbensen

I find myself writing and rewriting this piece of code whenever I want to zip a set of files (in memory) and return the zipped file back as ...

New Java - calculate the difference between two dates By Patricbensen

Finding the difference between two dates isn't as straightforward as subtracting the two dates and dividing the result by (24 * 60 * 60...

New Java's UTF-8 and Unicode writing is broken - Use this fix By Patricbensen

Many of you might not believe this but try creating a file in UTF-8 encoding using a java program like this one (found on the java tutorial ...

New Print JNDI tree By Patricbensen

At one point or another most of us would have wanted to see what was in the JNDI tree of the Application Server. This may have been because ...